Before you head off to your fun in the sun, check out our longer form weekend readings:
- Edward Snowden: The Untold Story (Wired)
- Paul Graham on Money vs. Wealth: How to Get Rich (Brain Pickings)
- This Pope Means Business (Fortune)
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality (The Verge)
- America’s coal heartland is in economic freefall — but only the most desperate are fleeing (Washington Post) see also David Autor’s guide to labour and the machine (FT Alphaville)
- What happened to Motorola? (Chicago Magazine)
- Back to Baghdad: Life in the City of Doom (Rolling Stone)
- Did Tony die at the end of The Sopranos? (Vox)
- No Complaints: An Interview with Pete Best, the Original Drummer of the Beatles (Pop Matters)
- 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire (Vox)